Posted on 03/29/2010 7:34:17 AM PDT by AIM Freeper
The tea Party Express event in Harry Reid's hometown of Searchlight, NV attracted thousand of people but you wouldn't know that if you were watching CNN.
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CNN proved once again that the liberal media is biased when it comes to Tea Party events and will do everything they can to either downplay the turnout to creating false charges of racism.
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This comes as a surprise to whom?
No offense, but isn’t this a “water is wet” headline?
I tuned into CNN and they were pushing the Coffee Party that Obama’s minions started. LOL
Personally I don’t care if they low-ball Tea Party activism. I prefer a stealth campaign where the opposition is led to underestimate (or is that misunderestimate?) the movement. Let the Dems get over-confident and let November hit them like the proverbial bus.
Someone in the Lame Stream Media lowballed the crowd size at a Conservative Gathering?
Melanie Morgan on KSFO San Fran right now and just mentioned that the police indicated a crowd of 35,000.
CNN devout followers of Joseph Goebbels????
About twenty years ago or so, there was a pro-life march in Birmingham, Alabama. The march was in support of legislation concering parental notice, etc.
CNN was there...all the press / TV cameras were on a flat bed trailer about 50 yard in front of the spokespersons platform...it was a HUGE crowd...the first spokesperson spoke to the crowd and pointed to the media and said, “Let’s get this right this time...the park rangers have just given me the crowd estimate as 40,000 and GROWING.”
That night CNN report 15,000 in attendance.
I also watched as BLACK speakers began to speak to the crowd, the TV cameras would turn off...or point other places...CNN INTENTIONALLY did not film ANY Black speakers.
And this was at 9AM local time.
The CNN “headcount” at this event is far less troubling than the selective coverage. Crowd counting is based on statistical analysis and can be easily manipulated. As with any group, the Tea Party movement includes a wide swath of participants — mainstream media only seems to focus on those with misspelled, inaccurate, and/or hateful or offensive signage. This was not the case with coverage of the Obama campaign.
Islam is, at its core, a peaceful religion, it is those at the extreme (Al Qaida, the Taliban) that garner the attention and are responsible for the heinous acts. Yet this is the Islam the world “sees” through the media. Similarly, as a movement of the PEOPLE, WE must be careful to distance ourselves from the radical extremists. If someone shows up at a Tea Party event in a KKK robe, ask them to leave. If the “Birthers” are making noise and holding signs, politely ask them to focus on the real, important issues and keep the “Birther” issue separate.
Mainstream media will continue to vilify and downplay the Tea Party movement; while we can adamantly defend the rights of ANY American to hold whatever views they chose, we must be careful to NOT allow the media to define us by the extremist element. Hate, Racism, “Birthers”, Hitler moustaches on ANY democratically elected President, etc have no place in America and no place in the Tea Party movement. If we allow these extremist views to define the Tea Party movement, we will lose the center – our core – and we will lose the battle.
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